Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-10-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, proceeding of VIRA conference (march 2006, Paris)
Scientific paper
We present a new mode of observations with VISIR, the mid-InfraRed (mid-IR) imager and spectrometer on the VLT (ESO, Chile): the so-called BURST mode. This mode allows to reach the diffraction limit of the telescope. To illustrate results obtained with this mode, we discuss observations of disks around Herbig Ae stars. These stars are the more massive analogues of T Tauri stars and are believed to harbour circumstellar disks. The 10-20 microns atmospheric windows are well-suited to study the extended emission of these objects. With a 8 m class telescope, in fair seeing conditions, the observations are diffraction-limited at 10 microns and the spatial resolution could reach the diffraction limit of 0.3 arcsec. As a result, it is possible to resolve disks with a typical size of 100 AU around objects at a distance of 100 pc. We present here a significant example, HD97048, for which a flared disk of 350 AU is resolved at 11.3 microns (PAH band).
Doucet Coralie
Lagage Pierre Olivier
Pantin Eric
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